E-cadherin mRNA expression in breast carcinomas correlates with overall and disease-free survival

Invasion and Metastasis

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 19-26

  Guriec, Nathalie ^a,b   Marcellin, Luc ^a   Gairard, Béatrice ^a   Caldéroli, Hubert ^a   Wilk, Astrid ^a   Renaud, Robert ^a   Bergerat, Jean Pierre ^a   Oberling, Fraņcis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF STRASBOURG   (France)

^b IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; E cadherin; Prognosis; Semiquantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction; Survival

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; UVOMORULIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; BREAST FIBROADENOMA; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SURVIVAL; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METASTASIS; PROGNOSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CADHERINS; CARCINOMA; FEMALE; FIBROADENOMA; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; RNA, MESSENGER; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0029817813     PISSN: 02511789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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